Gaston Kamata Banaté & his wife, Claudia
Gaston is a graduate of the 4-year Pastoral Program at the Kaga Bandoro Bible Institute and was called to pastor one of the Baptist churches in the KB area. A few years later, he was approved by his colleagues to go on for advanced training at FIBAT. After successfully earning his MDiv. degree, he returned to again pastor his sending church. He has a gift for evangelism and church planting and continues to do these even after assuming the mantle of Director of the KB Bible Institute in 2019.
His greatest challenge is that KB is under control of a mainly Muslim rebel group, so there is little possibility of help if he is robbed or threatened on his rounds. Thankfully, he has made good contacts and is generally well respected wherever he goes.